A Hard Day's Night

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Summary: Beatles FOREVER!
Review: Of course I saw this film when I was 12 years old! 9 Times!! It's great fun for nostalgia. They really the Fab Four.

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Summary: An absolute miracle
Review: How can four guys so talented in music also be the most charming movie actors since Cary Grant? And how can a movie thrown together quickly for exploitative purposes be one of the greatest films in history? Who cares, just enjoy yourself!

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Summary: Very good, lot's of giggles!
Review: This movie is essential for people who have experienced Beatle Mania or have just discovered the fab 4. With Paul McCartney's "Grandfather" and other laughs, makes this movie great fun not just for Beatle fans.

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Summary: yo quiero verlo
Review: el pais de las maravilla

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Summary: A Great Representation of The Fab-Four
Review: I thought that Hard Day's Night was a great representaion of the Fab-Four. I love how songs just break in and it shows their "cheeky" personalites. Anyone who thinks this movie is only for girls is quite a bit off base. This movie is for any fan that would like to see the young Beatles rockn' through one of those days.

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Summary: The all-time greatest rock movie
Review: The world was experiencing Beatlemania, and then out came A Hard Day's Night. Any serious critic who had been trying to put down the Beatles confessed that A Hard Day's Night was a great movie. Brilliantly directed by Richard Lester, it gave the world a chance to see the Beatles as people, and a taste for what their world was like at the time. Alan Owen, the screenwriter, crafted the script after spending time with The Beatles, and so the movie is full of their "cheekiness." So many wonderful things - the opening credits, the entire train ride, Paul's grandfather, the Can't Buy Me Love sequence, and, my personal favorite, George's encounter with a clueless advertising executive. All of the songs became classics - it's almost funny to see the Beatles doing a dress rehearsal performance of "And I Love Her" and then hear the director say "Thank you. Very nice." On the negative side, I never understood why the script was written to have Paul say that his mother sent his grandfather on the train trip with them, since Paul's mother died when he was around 12. Their manager Norm says to John that "he'll tell his mother on him," and John's mother had died in the 50's. Small complaints, however. Watch the Beatles in the car leaving the train station - their clothes are different than when on the train. All in all, a great movie.

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Summary: Not as good as HELP!
Review: A HARD DAYS NIGHT was the BEATLES movie that struck a chord with the teenage girls. It was a movie that was designed to get the girls going. HELP was not. This is a movie you should rent. NO OFFENSE to AMAZON

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Summary: Ay, who's that little old man?
Review: I can't tell you how many times I had to repeat that line--with the appropriate Liverpool panache--to my cousin, who found it to be boundlessly funny. I am a denizen of Liverpool--or was, a long time ago. Where I come from it's practically treason to not like the Beatles--The Lads Who Shook The World. There are still statues of them in Liverpool proper, even though not one has lived in Liverpool for more than twenty years. When I watch a Hard Day's Night I am reminded of that special magic they created--first for Liverpool, then for the entire world. I guess we always felt that they were 'ours' but they belonged to the whole world. Watching the movie, I see what a crime it would have been to deny the world the greatest rock and roll band that ever lived. And we could never have denied that bathtub scene with John or George's little advertising misadventure--"Oh, yeah, the lads frequently sit 'round the televison and watch her for a giggle. In fact, once we all sat down and wrote these letters saying how gear she was and all that rubbish...She's a drag. A well known drag. You turn the sound down on her and say rude things."

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Summary: An all-time classic
Review: It's funny, but if you watch most of the movies designed to showcase the "it" star of the hour, they date themselves within about a year. A Hard Day's Night, however, holds up just as well today as it did in 1964. Beatlemania was at its height, and the movie is an exaggerated rendition of a day in the life of the world's most popular group. The humor holds up just as well now as it did thirty-five years ago, and the music is spectacular, featuring such classics as the title song, "Can't Buy Me Love," and "And I Love Her." The movie has been justly called the first real music video, and remains a wonderful example of filmmaking.

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Summary: Not only for Beatles fans
Review: This movie is not only the quintessential portrait of the Beatles and Beatlemania (as we would like to remember them), but is a true period piece, capturing the flavor of the early Sixties. Insightful, brimming over with wit and charm (and pathos!), this film is a must. And let's not forget all the GREAT music. Don't underestimate this film: it's about more than just the Beatles.